I'm setting up an Illustrator/MAPublisher training course where, in one of the excercises, I import some contour lines and MAPublisher says some of them were simplified because they had too many points. So I'd like to be able to tell my students exactly how many points that would be

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Posted 21 April 2008 - 08:07 AM

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I'm setting up an Illustrator/MAPublisher training course where, in one of the excercises, I import some contour lines and MAPublisher says some of them were simplified because they had too many points. So I'd like to be able to tell my students exactly how many points that would be

Hans,

You might be able to get at this number by selecting one of the simplified lines in Illustrator/Map Publisher and then selecting Object >> Path >> Simplify. If you check preview you will be able to see the total number of points currently in the line.

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Posted 21 April 2008 - 08:55 AM

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32,000 - I don't think i've ever got that far.

What are you using it for Hans?

I'm setting up an Illustrator/MAPublisher training course where, in one of the excercises, I import some contour lines and MAPublisher says some of them were simplified because they had too many points. So I'd like to be able to tell my students exactly how many points that would be

Hi Hans

Here I have generated a China bdy file with exactly 58349 points in the shape file. Actually I had exactly half the points of this file in one China bdy file, so I have added one point in the middle of two by calculating simple mean. Thus doubling the points. Try importing this file by Map Pub and you will get the answer, hopefully..

Best..

Anu

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Posted 21 April 2008 - 09:08 AM

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32,000 is the number. I can't find any official documentation, but I've run across it enough that it's etched in my brain. The Oregon coastline at the scale of our corporate data (1:24,000) exceeds the limit when I import. My usual solution is to substitute smaller scale data. If I simplify, I prefer to do it on the GIS side.

Paul FyfieldCartographer, Bureau of Land ManagementOregon State OfficePortland, Oregonpfyfield@blm.gov

Casey Greene

Posted 21 April 2008 - 09:18 AM

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32,000 - I don't think i've ever got that far.

What are you using it for Hans?

I'm setting up an Illustrator/MAPublisher training course where, in one of the excercises, I import some contour lines and MAPublisher says some of them were simplified because they had too many points. So I'd like to be able to tell my students exactly how many points that would be

Ah, importing...I guess I have got that far...but just always went with the simplification.

I thought you were creating a 32,000 point line/poly manually...whew, that'd be a lot of clicks.

Rick Dey

Posted 21 April 2008 - 09:52 AM

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Hans,

Check with David Andrec at Avenza. It seems to me he gave that number at a training course and may know the exact number. I'm also wondering if the number may have changed over the years is we've progressed from AI 10 and MP 5.